Whats your job?

[pythonshine]

I have seen quite the spectrum of experience on many posts.I thought it would be cool to have a topic for it....a bit of back patting maybe but hell what do you do?

I have been a welder for most of my short career, now I'm an extruder operator. I make what most call "puck board" the technical term is High Density Polyethylene Sheet.

[StillLearning1]

I've thought about making this thread a few times but never did. Glad someone made it!

I've been a machinist for 8 years now. Everything from aerospace to medical.

If I had a "do over" I'd be in the medical field.Maybe one day I can go back to college... again.

[pythonshine]

Lol I envy your knowledge...I have enough knowledge to run a lathe, v and h mill but that's about it. And that's not the prettiest work either.

[bearriver]

General contractor, 3rd generation. Bear River is the name of the buisness. My father picked it years ago and now I use it in all my ventures.

[pythonshine]

Third gen...sweet! It's like ujssm right? better every generation?

[Bigbob]

Work now as a Gardner for a large liberal city on the central coast of California. Before that spent 25+years as a owner operator concrete pumper and 20 years (concurrently) as a chimney sweep. Before that(yeah I'm old!) I was a truck driver( both semi and mixer) and a Gardner/ laborer.

[pythonshine]

Quite the career you got bigbob! And your only as old as you feel lol.....I must be eighty then

[Bigbob]

Dude, your younger than my middle child! But I got a 17 year old to remind me to keep it zipped!

[pythonshine]

Lol true. I may be 24 but due to my own stupidity iv got arthritis in my lower back...was crushed by a steel wagon...and a bum knee...welding pipe In Quebec I slipped on ice and nearly shattered my right knee cap. fun fun fun

[Bigbob]

Yeah walking wounded myself.... My oldest son is learning to be a welder. Hope it works out for him.

[pythonshine]

well good luck to him! I still enjoy welding and its a career that can go places...what type of welding?

[StillLearning1]

Lol I envy your knowledge...I have enough knowledge to run a lathe, v and h mill but that's about it. And that's not the prettiest work either.

Don't be. I've just been what we call a "button pusher" for most of those 8 years. I just loaded parts and made minor offset adjustments to hold tolerance. I've been doing set ups for the last two years or so however. Just on a simple 3 axis Haas mill. Nothing fancy.

Machining is a trade, one that takes many many years to master. I still consider myself very much a novice at this game. Some days I love it, some days....I'm glad I make likker! Lol!

[pythonshine]

Lol I hear ya. I went from welding pipe and building building to pushing buttons on an extruder panel.

[GrassHopper]

"I've been a puppet, a pauper, a pirate, a poet, a pawn and a king>
I've been up and down and over and out and I know one thing>
Each time I find myself flat on my face>
I pick myself up and get back in the race"> Sinatra

Holy mohlly, where to start?
A produce man 5yrs, A sign painting business 30 yrs, a TV repair business, a gas station owner, a second hand store owner, owned 3 stores in AZ. (rocks, fossils, meteorites, etc). , Did Quartzsite and Tucson Gem Shows for 13 yrs. and retired in 2010, and still operate 5 online businesses with my wife. I'm really tired.

[pythonshine]

Dam GrassHopper I would be more than tired! Yet another interests of mine...rocks jems and fossils that is

[Bigbob]

well good luck to him! I still enjoy welding and its a career that can go places...what type of welding?

He is going to the Tulsa school of welding, which I understand is one of the top schools in the country. He has learned all types of welding and is now taking the course to be an inspector.( he needs to do at least 4/5 years as a welder before he can become an inspector)

[pythonshine]

Excellent!

[thecroweater]

General builder, in one trade or another at least 8th generation. Had two Great Great Grandfathers work on the same church one was the carpenter the other the Mason. 170 odd years later the building is as good as new. Soon after arriving here one of my Great Great Great Grandfathers built a pug cottage and almost 180 years latter it is still a family home, hope my work endures as long

[pythonshine]

That is quite a history to uphold. You must have quite the pride for such a rich and long standing history.

[frodo]

30+ years Turd Herder,

[pythonshine]

Oh geez,frodo, you have my line hand looking at me like I'm weird or something.... that was a definite lol.

[T-Pee]

Retired Nuclear Maintenance Electrician for the Navy. Scary thought, huh?
Been in some of the weirdest places you can imagine along those lines.

Now I do whatever I want as long as the horses get fed and Poop Patrol is accomplished.

tp

[pythonshine]

Nice T Pee.

[pythonshine]

Your nuke shine is a little different then ours eh? Does it glow?

[Yummyrum]

30 odd years as a TV /electronics Technician then as that become part of our "throw-away society " and workshop work started to dry up been mostly antenna installation work for the last few years and recently that works been getting thin on the ground to , so been doing several days a week as a Lab technician and really enjoying that ....particularly not having to crawl around in 50 deg C rat shit invested ceiling cavities pulling cables around snakes and itching like a bitch with fiber glass insulation bats ....oh did I mention the airconditioning ...and my knees like it better too

As regards pay over my lifetime ......Poor , poorer , really poor ....but did I mention the airconditioning

[john2674]

Well military.. retired from the national guard. I was a ummmm..... water purification specialist... (there I said it.)
Right now I am a surveyor/ heavy equipment operator.(scraper ,dozer, trackhoe, and such.)

[pythonshine]

That sucks yummy...the rat shiet and all. I know all about the itch....keep your minds outa the gutter...fire blankets and insulation....putting some reinforcing in a store in Sarnia, had to crawl around on my belly above an office....old plaster ceiling and batton....that was a few days of hell.

[pythonshine]

Gotta respect the service men and women. Cheers to you boys...and girls.

[Desvio]

Retired firefighter EMT, now a laboratory applications analyst and systems administration.

[moered]

Well, started off farming. organic free range pigs, chickens sheep. Sold grain wholesale, bought in bulk and milled it myself, Done rabbits too along the way. Done cutting and splitting firewood (by hand) , medicinal herbs for medicine companies, commercial veg growing too. Still got the farm now, although downscaled a lot.

I've been a camera operator in the film industry, I been a tree surgeon, a stage hand for big concerts and festivals, been a gardener in a public gardens. Done some security in my time too, mostly in the nightclubs, seen all sorts of things go on. Ran my own music festival for four years.

Going planting most of our land this year in hardwood forestry, and retraining to get my brewing diploma, and study some org chem , and apply for work in a brewery.
the forestry when established should offer lots of additional income sources, education , mushroom growing, thinnings etc.

I ain't that old really, but I quit school young, and got to work straight away. I like reading, and educating myself in all sorts, but just couldn't get by with how school tried to educate. I grew up pretty poor and working hard on the farm, so that prepared me for life pretty good! Started out with nothing and still got most of it left.